As the door closed, the brightness of the activity hall on the first floor instantly dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Of course, since it is still sunny outside, there is still visibility. Standing at the door, the entire event hall is basically in a state of unobstructed view.
There are two roads leading to the upper floors of this building. One is a circular staircase located on the west side of the activity hall on the first floor, and the other is a simple elevator located on the east side of the activity hall.
However, in this kind of environment, knowing that there are strange stories in the building, no fool would choose to take the elevator. After all, in a small place like the elevator, if something unexpected happens, you can't even use it.
"The door won't open."
Frowning slightly, he turned around and tried to see if he could forcefully break open the door, but to no avail, Tie Xue spoke.
"This is for sure. After all, if the door can be opened casually, then the difficulty of the first mission will not be reflected. After all, we want to find survivors from the room, and then bring those survivors Take it from indoors to outdoors.”
Reaching out to push up his glasses, the traveler smiled.
"We have talked about the issue of limited time before, so for the sake of efficiency, I suggest that we search this building separately. The goal of seven people gathering together is too obvious and the efficiency is too low. My personal suggestion is that a total of Divided into three groups, the number of people is according to... "
"Why should we listen to you?"
Before the traveler could finish his sentence, he spit out the melon seed shells in his mouth on the ground. Ye Ao and Nai Wo He spoke with a sneer on their faces. The feeling of a bad boy suddenly appeared on his body.
"In horror movies, splitting up is always the stupidest thing to do. I don't support your suggestion."
"I have said before that this mission without any time limit is probably the biggest trap. If we continue to dillydally like now without any efficiency, the danger we will encounter may be even greater. .”
The traveler smiled nonchalantly and continued to speak patiently.
"After all, it was mentioned in the mission that there are still survivors in this building. Even ordinary people can survive in this building, so it won't be a problem for us players. And once we encounter danger, Maybe this is a good opportunity for us to solve the puzzle. It would be foolish to act alone, but we basically work in groups of two or three, which has minimized the risk to a great extent."
"...Then I want to team up with him."
Rolling his eyes slightly, the middle-grade bad boy pointed directly at Tie Xue, who was looking around.
Among all the players present, this player who looks like a soldier has the highest level and is also the strongest in terms of size. It is not surprising that he would make such a choice.
"..."
Tie Xue frowned slightly, but did not speak.
"Let's do this. Let's group ourselves into groups at will, at least two people. If we encounter any unusual events, or if there are any unusual things or traces of survivors, we will use this wireless walkie-talkie to communicate."
Smiling, the traveler took out several walkie-talkies from his backpack as he spoke and distributed one to each of them.
"If that's the case, then there shouldn't be any need to distribute one to each person. Wouldn't it be enough to distribute one to that group?"
Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows and said rebuttal words in his mouth, but Bai Zhi also reached out and took the wireless walkie-talkie over.
The size of this wireless walkie-talkie is not large, smaller than the size of an air conditioner remote control, and it is very convenient to hold in your hand.
"It's just to prevent accidents. After all, in the weird incident, don't be afraid of the unexpected, just be afraid of the accident. If someone is really in danger alone, with this walkie-talkie, we can go there in time to carry out rescue."
Putting the walkie-talkie in his hand into his jacket pocket, the traveler smiled at Bai Zhi.
"Of course, if you have any discoveries or guesses, you can feel free to post them on the public channel... Okay, let's start forming a team now. Feel free to follow your personal preferences, but for the sake of efficiency, please be sure to divide it into the best possible way. Three groups."
"I'm in a group with him!!"
As soon as the traveler finished speaking, Qianxiao Xinrou raised her hand without hesitation and walked to Bai Zhi's side.
Although Bai Zhi has the lowest level among the players present, after the novice mission where the group was almost wiped out, Xiaoxiao Xinrou can still tell clearly in his mind which one is the bigger player.
As if she was a little surprised by Qian Xiao Xinrou's strange choice, the cold-faced iceberg beauty named Lian Qing glanced at Bai Zhi in surprise, and then followed her to the traveler's side.
After a while, the three groups roughly took shape, with only Daoloth, a female player, remaining in place.
"Well… "
It seemed that he didn't expect that the groups would be sorted out so quickly. After being stunned for a moment, and looking at the two teams of Travelers and Iron-Blooded respectively, Daoloth walked towards Iron-Blooded.
—During the entire process, it can be said that Bai Zhi’s group was completely ignored.
However, Bai Zhi has never cared much about this kind of thing. If possible, he would even like to explore it alone...
"Now that everyone's groups have been divided, is it okay for me to distribute the tasks between the groups?"
Seeing that the groups had been divided, the traveler adjusted his glasses with his middle finger and started talking with a smile.
"Looking from the outside, this building has a total of six floors. There are three teams. Each team is responsible for searching two floors. Lian Qing and I are responsible for searching the third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors..."
"Leave the fifth and sixth floors to me."
Before the traveler could finish speaking, Bai Zhi nodded with a serious face.
"Five and six are my lucky numbers."
"Uh... Then the three of you, Iron Blood, will be responsible for the search from the first floor to the second floor."
After glancing at Bai Zhi, the traveler continued.
After that, he gave instructions with a very serious look on his face.
"Everyone, remember, no matter what time, life is the most important, so please be more careful. Once you find any abnormal existence or traces of survivor activities, please report it to the public channel as soon as possible. Call your teammates inside..."
The traveler's tone paused slightly.
"...In the face of only one life, no amount of caution is too much!!"
Volume 1 The Gap between Virtuality and Reality: Chapter 83 Chapter 81 Stairs
"... By luck, a wild monster spawned in your house? Or two?"
Walking on the stairwell leading to the sixth floor, Bai Zhi's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly as he listened to the smiling and heart-warming stories beside him.
It was originally just a casual inquiry about such a high-level person out of curiosity, but in the end, I got a quite candid answer from Qianxiao Xinrou.
Originally, both myself and the other party were the same batch of novice players participating in the same novice mission at the same time. In order to improve my level, I worked hard to find urban ghost stories, searched for wild monsters in the streets, took a taxi to the mall early in the morning to conquer the game, and even went to hell before... But even if After experiencing so much, he barely managed to reach level five.
And if he hadn't ordered takeout yesterday under unavoidable circumstances, and accidentally encountered and solved a very low-risk urban ghost story, he wouldn't even have reached level five now.
It was so difficult for him to level up, yet Qianxiao Xinrou, who performed quite poorly in the novice mission, actually surpassed him in level
... Bai Zhi thought this was extremely outrageous.
Originally, he thought that this might be because of some secret of the other party, so Bai Zhi didn't want to go into details.
But he didn't expect that Qianxiao Xinrou would show quite a lot of trust in him. Not only did he tell him the reason why his level could be improved so quickly, but he even told him the exact data of his skills...
For formal players, there is no doubt about the importance of skills. Often, the first rare level skill that each player masters is the core of his ability to survive later tasks and strange stories.
Therefore, the skills he has mastered are almost the biggest secret of the player. Previously, Lin He also announced the news of his skills to him because he wanted to win his trust.
Therefore, Bai Zhi was a little shocked when Qianxiao Xinrou shared his skill data so straightforwardly.
However, in Qianxiaoxinrou's own words, she is worried that the same situation may occur again due to deliberate concealment like the novice mission, and once her skills are used, the specific effects cannot be concealed, and it is easy to You can guess it, it’s better to be honest from the beginning.
...Although Bai Zhi only saw "big boss please take care of me" on the other person's face.
That's right, the reason why the other party's level is higher than his is not that the other party later participated in solving many urban ghost story incidents, but because when she woke up one day... she found that a ghost appeared in her room. Got two wild monsters.
As a unique existence that can provide a lot of experience points and the opportunity to drop equipment, wild monsters are a very important and rare resource. Bai Zhi had been running on the street for several days and found nothing. The only blue monster he saw was Kuba was also arrested by the urban management department of the relevant departments.
And the other party casually woke up and there were two wild monsters at home... This probability was no less than the ten water blacks drawn out in the first ten companies.
"I think you must have saved a galaxy in your last life. It was just a matter of spawning wild monsters in your home, and you spawned two more in succession..."
While muttering somewhat speechlessly, Bai Zhi and Qianxiao Xinrou walked up the stairs. The group of travelers had already separated from them when they were on the third floor to search for clues. , so at this moment, there are only two of them in the entire stairwell.
Although the stairs that have been in disrepair for many years appear to be a bit shabby, they are still relatively strong. Bright sunlight shines through the windows deliberately opened in the middle of each floor and hits the handrails of the stairs, reflecting the Bright spots of varying sizes.
In this bright environment, people's psychological state can't help but relax. Although there is no research to prove that Kaitan is afraid of the sun, at this moment, under the premise of a bright sunny day outside, everyone's courage They have also grown a lot.
The current scene does not look like a strange place where urban ghost stories broke out, but more like a leisurely place during an afternoon leisure vacation.
"... Do you remember how many floors we walked in total?"
Suddenly stopping, Bai Zhi turned his head to look at the smiling Xinrou beside him with a slightly subtle expression.
"Uh... I haven't counted, but it should be there soon, right?"
Looking upward through the gap between the handrails of the stairs, Qianxiao Xinrou answered with some hesitation.
"After all, this building only has six floors in total..."
"We have just walked through almost seven floors."
Looking towards the stairs below, Bai Zhi spoke calmly.
"Now that we're halfway between the two floors, let's go back one floor and try it out."
"oh… "
Soon, the two of them retreated to the next floor, but what shocked Qianxiao Xinrou was that the next floor was still an empty stair platform, and there was no door to the sixth floor at all.
"Go further down."
Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes and continued to speak.
-The situation on the next level is exactly the same as the previous level.
Even if they continue to go down, the scene they see remains unchanged. Even if the two of them are deliberately separated, one goes up and the other goes down, in the end they are always on the same floor. meet.
"Is this a ghost beating a wall?"
After frowning and looking around, she smiled and walked to the window in a few steps, hoping to judge their current height from the situation outside. Since the window was opened a bit high, She also deliberately took out a chair from her backpack and put it down to rest her feet.
—In some ways, she seems to be beginning to align with Bai Zhi.
Through the glass of the window, she could vaguely see the blue sky outside and the white clouds floating in the blue sky. The sky was high and the clouds were light. Today was still a good weather for going out.
However, after getting closer to the window and seeing clearly what the so-called window really looked like, Qianxiao Xinrou suddenly froze there, and her heart became inexplicably cold.
"…This is a painting."
After a moment of silence, he turned his head with some difficulty, smiled and spoke to Bai Zhi behind him.
Although the scene on the window seemed extremely real, at such a close distance, she could already see the clear traces of the brush.
As if a most skilled artist had specially painted on this wall, the windows on this wall... were painted.
Because the painting technique is too realistic, and because of the distance, when you take a rough look at it, it feels like it is fake.
But since the window didn't exist at all from the beginning, then where did the sunlight that was projected into the stairwell come from
Volume One: The Gap between Virtuality and Reality: Chapter 84 Chapter 82 Drawing on White Paper
"Draw..."
After looking at the window above, Bai Zhi turned his gaze to the handrail of the stairs. The handrail of the stairs was brightly illuminated by the sunlight projected from the window.
Not only that, even when you put your hand on it, you can still feel the sun's burning sensation slightly on your skin.
"It's not that the windows are painted, but everything here is becoming a painting... Or are we inside a painting?"
Thousands of thoughts went through his mind in an instant, Bai Zhi turned his head and spoke to Qianxiao Xinrou.
"That's it. Get off the chair..."
Before he finished his sentence, Bai Zhi couldn't help but fell silent when he looked at the scene in front of him.
The black-haired girl standing on the chair with her back to him put her hands on the window, seemingly looking out the window. The chair under her feet supported her weight and height.
—This is what he saw from the front.
But if he turns to the side and looks at it, he can clearly find that the original three-dimensional object has been transformed into a two-dimensional plane. The girl and the stool under her feet have turned into a painting on the wall at some point. and three-dimensional pictures on the ground.
"Previously, the time I could turn my head was only less than a few seconds at most. If all this is really based on painting as a carrier, then touching the frame with hands will be the most direct medium... "
Exhaling a breath, Bai Zhi quickly retreated to the top of the stairs, but he did not continue to go up the stairs. Instead, he kept the strange painting on the wall reflected in his eyes. The scene therein.
"Ah... So, having a high level does not necessarily mean how strong a player will be. Leveling up by picking up wild monsters is completely useless. This guy is so unlucky."
Looking at the smiling Xinrou who turned into a painting on the wall in front of him, Bai Zhi, who had roughly figured out the strangeness of this stairwell in his mind, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Before, you were so reckless in the novice missions, and now you are not afraid of death to touch the anomaly with your hands... When it comes to seeking death, I, Bai Zhiyuan, call you the strongest."
Shaking his head slightly and sighing, Bai Zhi took out the walkie-talkie from his pocket.
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Meanwhile, here is the event hall on the first floor.
The team responsible for searching the areas on the first and second floors is represented by Tie Xue. The team members include Tie Xue who was born in the military, Ye Ao and Nai Wo He who were born in the second grade of middle school, and Doloth, a short-haired girl.